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Although known, German boxers are very scarce in the U. S. Thirty years ago, Herbert H. Lehman (now Lieutenant Governor of New York) brought over the first one. He now has three, likes them better than any other dog. The boxer is a very old, pure breed, known in England 350 years ago. About 100 years ago its popularity waned and the type died out in England. At the same time, German fanciers adopted them. Today their popularity is increasing especially in Germany, Holland, Austria. Germany has formed special clubs for pedigreed boxers and their owners. Like the mastiff which...
...living down the coast. But searchers were never able to find Virginia Dare and the other settlers. Twenty years later colonists at Jamestown heard stories that all but a few had been massacred by Powhatan, that the rest had been absorbed into an Indian tribe. To this day half-breed inhabitants (called Scuffletonians or Croatans) in Robeson County, N. C. claim, without historical evidence, to be descendants of Virginia Dare and the other "lost colonists" of Roanoke...
Home of pigeon-flying is Belgium. In the first half of the 19th Century, fanciers banded together, formed clubs to breed a fast racing bird. Today Belgium has 300,000 fanciers, seven million carriers. Greatest annual event is a race held over the concours national 500 mi. from Toulouse to Brussels. Winners are painted in oils. Many a proud household has a stuffed champion over the mantelpiece. Belgian patriots last month celebrated the centenary of Belgium's independence with a pigeon race. Starting from Algiers, the birds flew across the Mediterranean, over France, a distance...
From then on Cowboy Will went it alone. With plenty of confidence, with more than ordinary experience for his years, he had no difficulty finding jobs as a cowpuncher. Like all his breed he was a journeyman worker; from Canada to Mexico he wandered the West. After he had begun to be known as a writer, a cowboy critic once accused him of writing a fake cowboy language, but Author James explains his variations of speech by his many changes of scenery. Only his outfit and his style of riding, says he, never changed...
...head of an expedition which has come to grief in the desert. There is enough food and water left to enable three people to get to the nearest outpost of civilization. The rest must perish. Your companions are: 1. A brilliant scientist 60 years old. 2. Two half-breed guides ages 58 and 32. 3. The scientist's wife-interested mainly in society matters, age 39. 4. Her little son, age six. 5. The girl you are engaged to marry. 6. Your best friend, a young man of your own age who has shown great promise in the field...